Welcome Chuck Peddle, inventor of the 6502 and the father of the personal computer revolution! A lot of Chuck’s timeline can be seen on the Commodore history site and on his wiki page The 6502 was used in seminal personal computers like the PET, the Atari 2600, the original Nintendo, the C64 and the Apple II. Chuck started thinking about distributed intelligence (vs centralized) with cash registers. In a similar manner, Exxon wanted centralized gas station payment terminals.